Motivational Quotes

Success

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

- Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

Best Quotes about Success

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew